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The Criminal Code of Canada defines terrorist activity to include an "act or omission undertaken, in or outside Canada, for a political, religious or ideological purpose, that is intended to intimidate the public with regard to its security, including its economic security, or to compel a person, government or organization (whether in or ...
The Act received royal assent on April 25, 2013. [1] On the first anniversary of the 7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel in a speech to a Jewish group, opposition leader Pierre Poilievre called upon the federal government to list western Yemen’s Houthi movement as a terrorist organization in Canada, according to section 83.05 of the Act. [5]
The attack was the deadliest act of terrorism in the history of Indonesia, killing 202 people, including 88 Australian citizens and 38 Indonesian citizens. [9] A further 240 people were injured. Various members of Jemaah Islamiyah , a violent Islamist group, were convicted in relation to the bombings, including three individuals who were ...
American Airlines Flight 11 crashes into One World Trade Center (North Tower) at 8:46 AM EDT. United Airlines Flight 175 crashes into Two World Trade Center (South Tower) at 9:03 AM EDT. American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon. Killing at least 2,700 people at the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, it is the deadliest ...
The following is a list of terrorist incidents that were not carried out by a state or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism).Assassinations are presented in List of assassinations and unsuccessful attempts at List of people who survived assassination attempts and List of heads of state and government who survived assassination attempts.
In 1961 the U.S. government, through the military and the CIA, engaged in a far more extensive campaign of state-sponsored terrorism against civilian and military targets in Cuba. The terrorist attacks killed significant numbers of civilians. The U.S. armed, trained, funded and directed the terrorists, most of whom were Cuban expatriates. [15]
This is a list of terrorist incidents which took place in 2015, including attacks by violent non-state actors for political motives. Note that terrorism related to drug wars and cartel violence is not included in these lists. Ongoing military conflicts are listed separately.
The following tables show the number of incidents, deaths, injuries based on data from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) which was collected and collated by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland. [1]